[CPEO-MEF] CLEANUP: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (ME) lead

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Portsmouth Naval Shipyard plans lead cleanup
Contamination from old battery acid tank

By Deborah Mcdermott
York Weekly (ME)
June 30, 2010

KITTERY, Maine - The Portsmouth Naval Shipyard is holding a public 
hearing tonight to discuss its plans to clean soil at the yard 
contaminated by lead from a former battery acid storage tank.

According to public affairs officer Danna Eddy, the lead contamination 
was first found more than 25 years ago and the surrounding soil was 
removed. However, groundwater contamination persists, "although not at a 
level that poses a risk to human health," Eddy said.

According to a report on the site, lead concentrations in the 
groundwater "are low, generally less than 40 parts per billion, and do 
not indicate lead leaching from the soil adversely impacts human health 
or the environment," she said.

However, some of the soil surrounding the place where the tank was 
located does have higher levels of 2,000 to 8,000 parts per million, in 
what she referred to as "the tidally saturated zone."

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For the entire article, see
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20100630-NEWS-6300380

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Lenny Siegel
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